“And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.”

I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.

The very funny thing about “Like A Rolling Stone” is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument.

The “Highway 61” album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I’m not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson.

So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.

I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.

Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before.

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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after “Like A Rolling Stone”.

And a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside.

Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the “Like A Rolling Stone” session I was invited by the producer to watch.

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,

You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn’t play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

I’m about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not the music.

I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.